Show Don't Hype: Agentic Design
Everyone designs now, agents included. So who decides what good looks like?
Sales builds decks. Marketing ships landing pages. Ops prompts internal tools. Founders prototype over lunch.
Show Don't Hype is a series of live sessions. In the first edition, three founding designers from Zero, Gladia, and Palette share their screens and show how they design with AI today: how they keep their taste, make better calls, and build systems that let anyone in the company design. There is not one answer, but a palette of ways.
The one rule: no slides, no hype. Just real setups, from the wobbly version 1 to what runs today, including the bits that broke.
One hour. Three live demos. One fireside chat.
Speakers
Søren Clausen, Founding Product Designer at Palette, on designing with AI without losing what makes you the designer: thinking, taste, and decisions.
Niko Salkola, Founding Designer at Zero, on how AI became his palantír (the Tolkien kind, not the company): better design calls, fewer surprises.
Farouk Tahri, Founding Brand Designer & Engineer at Gladia, on going from a single design.md file to an agentic design system that lives in an MCP and lets anyone at Gladia design.
Agenda (all times CET)
15:00 | Hi, hej, moi, salut 👋
15:05 | Søren, Niko, and Farouk share their screens
15:35 | Fireside chat
15:55 | One thing to try tomorrow
What you will take away
Three real setups to borrow from
How to keep your taste when AI does the making
How to build a system so agents and colleagues can design
One concrete first step
This session is for designers and teams who have started designing with AI. Know anyone who should join us? Share this event with them.
We can't wait to share our screens,
Søren, Niko, Farouk, and Silja